Biden takes heat for border measures, but illegal crossings are down

Rep. J. Luis Correa (Calif), a member of the Homeland Security Committee and ranking Democrat of the subcommittee on border security, said he avoided the hearing because it felt partisan, not a joint effort to shape immigration policy. Correa said that this week he visited the Texas border city of Laredo, where he saw migrants from Ecuador at a detention facility facing possible deportation.

“You saw their hope and their desperation,” he said. “If you give people the opportunity to come into the country legally, they will take that opportunity.”

By:  Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti
Source: The Washington Post

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